The Queens Baseball Convention is coming up and they had a new announcement..

Coach’s Collectibles is Very Proud to announce we will be getting involved in the Biggest NY Met Fan Event of the Year, The Queens Baseball Convention 

The QBC, is an incredible fan event that can be described as hybrid between a Fan Fest & Comic Con that is All BLUE AND ORANGE BABY. We will be selling Unsigned & Signed Product from Framed Photos, to Baseballs, Jerseys and Everything In Between. We will ALSO be bringing in TWO Fan Favorite Mets at The Coach’s Collectibles Booth to Sign for Fans, Endy Chavez & Doc Gooden.

The Event will also have Howard Johnson, RA Dickey & Bartolo Colon all Live in person signing autographs, Doing Q&A Panels and taking pictures with Fans.

The announcement of Gooden and Chavez included…

You MUST purchase a ticket to the event which will include an autograph from one of the Events 3 Guests to get in. You can purchase tickets at https://queensbaseballconvention.com

To obtain Autographs from our two guests youl purchase tickets from our website CoachscollectiblesNy.com and get your tickets day of at our booth

If you need to send in an item to get signed we can help you with that also! Just message us! We will have for unsigned items for both players to sign including Photos, Jerseys, baseballs, minj helmets and more

The QBC is Saturday December 3 at Four Points by Sheraton is located at 33-68 Farrington St, Queens, NY 11354, should be a fun day.

METS CLAIM RHP WILLIAM WOODS

 

FLUSHING, N.Y., November 18, 2022 – The New York Mets announced today that the club has claimed right-handed pitcher William Woods off waivers from Atlanta.

 

Woods, 23, made his major league debut with the Braves this season, tossing 2.0 scoreless innings with two strikeouts in two appearances. In four minor league seasons in the Atlanta organization, he is 2-9 with a 4.60 ERA (55 ER/107.2 IP) in 59 games (18 start

Hey who wouldn’t want a Pro Standard New York Mets Royal 1986 World Series Double City Pink Undervisor Snapback Hat

Wow this is something you could describe as unbelievable.  It’s hard for me to imagine this being true.  I mean I want to be fair to the Athletic and their history of good journalism, I find their stories to be accurate, but the thought that the Mets could conceivably be partaking in behavior outside the rules?  What kind of person would do such a thing?

MLB is looking into whether the owners of the Mets and Yankees, Steve Cohen and Hal Steinbrenner, communicated improperly about Judge, The Athletic reported late Wednesday night……

MLB is now investigating whether that could be a possible violation of the collective bargaining agreement, which states “Clubs shall not act in concert with other Clubs,” with regard to the dispersal of information on player contracts. (Via NY Post summary)

What’s crazier is that if the story is true, Steve himself could conceivably have been involved!  Can you imagine such a thing?  I look forward to learning more about this story and MLB’s investigation.  One might hope the Mets don’t have to pay some sort of administrative fine to make this whole thing go away, so we can get back to focusing on baseball!

 

Big soccer fans like you have to be excited about the new 25,000 seat soccer stadium coming to Queens, right across from Citi Field!  It’s even official and stuff.

According to the New York Times the project even includes the long elusive affordable housing!

…. a 23-acre project that includes a 250-room hotel and 2,500 units of housing. Officials say the project would be the city’s largest development of entirely affordable housing since the Mitchell-Lama developments of the 1970s. (via NY Times)

And even more shocking…

The soccer team will pay for the entire construction of the stadium, which is estimated to cost $780 million, city officials said. Neither tax-exempt bond financing nor direct city capital infusions will be used,

,,,. The developers are not getting abatements on mortgage recording or sales taxes, he said. But the stadium owners will not have to pay real estate taxes for the duration of the lease. (via NY Times)

Surely some part of this must be horrible to Mets fans…well yes, the development company…you know them as The Wilpons.

So for boycotters, I’d better not see you guys at any soccer games.

Oh, enjoy the parking situation when the Mets and the NYCFCs play on the same night.

Overall though, kinda cool.  Good for MLS.  Good for the NYCFCs.  Good for Queens.  Better than ugly chop shops.

Maybe even big time soccer aficionado Mike Piazza can rally some supporters to hit up a game!

Full details in the New York Times.

A super-official announcement is expected today.